B.E.S.T. competition at College Park High School

THE WOODLANDS, Texas -- The Woodlands College Park High School is hosting a B.E.S.T. (Boosting Engineering, Science, and Technology) competition this Saturday, October 19, 2013. Sixteen schools will report to the competition gym at 8 a.m. and compete through 3 p.m.

B.E.S.T. is an organization dedicated to fostering science and engineering among high school and middle school students throughout the country. Each year, a competition is hosted where students construct a robot from a limited set of materials. The robot competes in a game against the other schools where the robots may be removing "dangerous" materials, rescuing aliens, or saving the world. The North Houston B.E.S.T. Hub supports schools from the Montgomery County and North Harris County area.

North Houston BEST invites high school and middle school students from the Montgomery County and North Harris County area to participate in our annual robotics competition. B.E.S.T. competition is held each year. Students construct a robot from a limited set of materials. The materials are provided to each school free of charge.

The robot competes in a game where a set of tasks has been defined. The robots may be removing "dangerous" materials, rescuing aliens, or saving the world. In addition, many teams compete for an overall award demonstrating their design process, school spirit, and community involvement. Winners advance to a 3-day visit to a local university where students tour research facilities, take part in science games, listen to speakers, and compete against teams from around the country.

The game for this year is as follows:

The B.E.S.T. Robotics motto has always been “no robot left behind”. One challenge remains: Squeaky, the original B.E.S.T. robot needs serious upgrades to become Squeaky 2.0. Almost all of the components for Squeaky’s upgrade have been secured through generous BEST sponsors, but one component is still missing: the B.E.S.T. CPU (Central Processing Unit). Squeaky 2.0 will require the newest and fastest CPU on the market.

This year's primary objective is to design a prototype robot to construct a CPU over the course of three fabrication stages.

On Friday student teams check in and will have journals, posters, and presentations graded. On Saturday the students will compete with their robots.